2 N.J. cops charged for beating that was caught on surveillance video

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nj.com/news/2021/04/2-nj-cops-charged-for-beating-that-was-caught-on-surveillance-video.html

Two Paterson police officers have been charged after a recent video showed them repeatedly punching a 19-year-old in December, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

Kevin Patino, 29, and Kendry Tineo-Restituyo, 28, both of Paterson, were charged by complaint with depriving a victim of his Constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by law enforcement officers and with filing a false police report.

The charges come less than three months after the victim, Osamah Alsaidi, of Paterson, released the video of the assault on social media showing Patino and Tineo-Restituyo approaching Alsaidi, throwing him to the ground and repeatedly punching him.

The video drew outrage and the state Attorney General’s office launched an investigation, though the officers will now face federal charges.

“Police officers who abuse their positions to exert power over and injure the citizens they are supposed to protect violate our Constitution and erode trust in our public institutions,” acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig said in a statement.

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[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[Demovictory9]

2. walking while brown

[marble falls]

3. The cops are the ones in need of restraint.

[secondwind]

4. Omg 😱, that video!!!

These two belong together in jail, pronto!!!!

Omg 😳

[alittlelark]

5. 'Roid Rage - taken out whenever possible.

[Midnightwalk]

6. We need aggravating circumstances to false reports

There’s probably variations but here’s one statute from google

A Class 1 Misdemeanor is punishable by up to 6 months in jail, a fine of up to $2,500 plus surcharges, and up to 3 years of probation.

Covering up police abuse add time

Causing someone to be wrongfully incarcerated the time should be commensurate. That includes someone in jail waitinf for tries.

There will be howls of indignation but cop statements are given great weight. The good cops who go along with the lies need to be held to account and need something to counter to pressure from other cops to falsify statements.

[Hekate]

7. They might be able to get cop-jobs in Colorado, beating up 80 pound old ladies, 3 on one....

[Jim__]

8. And then they charged him with aggravated assault on a police officer.

I imagine that's a felony and I imagine that carries serious time. If it does, I hope both cops get at least the equivalent amount of jail time that he could have gotten based on their bullshit charge.

[lame54]

9. In Paterson that's just the way things go

[LymphocyteLover]

10. WTF-- seriously? That shit needs to change.

[lame54]

11. Song lyric quote...

Hurricane by Bob Dylan

[Harker]

12. There was a day when the presence of surveillance cameras

was especially troubling to me.

Now I'm cheering every time a Capitol insurrectionist is brought in, and when video helps nail criminals like these.

[jaxexpat]

15. gotcha Harker. The old argument that if you're not in the wrong the camera will support you.....

seems to out-weigh the paranoia people have been told they should have about surveillance cameras. Because if you're innocent it can prove that. Same for guilty. Who'd a thought? Such simple logic. What kind of messed up dream-world were we in to ever think otherwise?
Cut and splice the film to change the story? Who uses film and who cares enough to go to the trouble?

Perhaps the same one wherein our medical history was so sacrosanct that these days it, the paperwork to protect our medical identities, actually impacts the delivery of medical treatment and confuses the system unnecessarily. Health care industry uses it as its go-to excuse for systemic delivery delays. Employers will hire anybody who shows up on time, healthy or otherwise.

Privacy's ass. Our cell phones relay more about us than we imagine we'd ever tolerate. But we still buy the stupid contraptions and wouldn't want a world where they weren't everywhere.

[Harker]

16. I read 1984 in the early seventies.

Big Brother has an upside, certainly...and satellites.

[LymphocyteLover]

17. of course most of these morons actually videoed themselves and posted it online

[Harker]

18. Yes, that was helpful.

Heads and phones held high.

[patphil]

13. For every one time criminal cop behavior gets caught on video,

you know there are dozens more incidents that don't get seen.
I really hate having to see this kind of shit going down by those who are supposed to "protect and serve".

[uponit7771]

20. +1, ... and there are too many people accepting the lack of professionalism among LEOs

[sciencescience]

14. psychopaths

[uponit7771]

19. omfg, these guys need to get the maximum and make it quick

[oasis]

21. Police departments need to carefully review recruitment practices. NOW. nt

[StarfishSaver]

22. This

People keep saying we need better training, but training isn't the problem. It's the people. They're hiring the wrong ones.

[oasis]

23. Rep.Jim Clyburn put an exclamation point on PD's need to get busy on it. nt